The patient was so zealous in her desire for treatment, however, that Delbanco became concerned that she would end up undergoing unnecessary exploratory surgery on her chest and abdomen.
But it also seems to me that the EFF may be getting a tad over zealous in its desire to defend our right to violate copyright and other intellectual property laws, and needs to take a step back and consider if the oppressed are now becoming the oppressor.
"This newly discovered information leads to the disconcerting conclusion that the commonwealth was driven by a zealous and single-minded desire to try Appellant and obtain a conviction despite information that put into question the justice of pursuing that outcome," the document said.
But, as time goes by, your over-zealous watchfulness can suffocate your partner's desire to make some of the crucial decisions in the relationship.
TMZ's zealous coverage of the salacious Woods story established its desire to pour resources into pursuing the infidelities of a superstar athlete.
He was primarily a mercenary figure — political, perhaps, but driven more by deal-making and the desire to maintain his relationships than by any zealous ideology.
The problems that beset both the Rump and the Nominated Parliament resulted from the diversity of groups that supported the revolution, ranging from pragmatic men of affairs, lawyers, officeholders, and local magistrates whose principal desire was to restore and maintain order to zealous visionaries who wished to establish heaven on earth.
Like the gentry, he desired a fixed and stable constitution, but, like the zealous, he was infused with a millenarian vision of a more glorious world to come (see millennialism).
But the campaign has also come to symbolise something else, a new intolerance of words and images that is sweeping across British and American university campuses, a zealous form of cultural policing that relies on accusatory rhetoric and a righteous desire to censor history, literature, politics and culture.
